Bunkspeed launches NVIDIA Quadro GPU-based Bunkspeed SHOT 3D rendering software with iray.

Bunkspeed has announced the release of Bunkspeed SHOT, a completely redesigned 'interactive photograph for 3D data' software application.

After Bunkspeed was first to bring interactive ray tracing to the market in 2007, they revolutionized rendering by empowering anyone to create photographic-quality images using only the CPU. The new Bunkspeed SHOT™ leverages the power of NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) and is built on the massively parallel computing architecture of NVIDIA CUDA™ to dramatically accelerate the user’s workflow. Even the most complex scenes render interactively, and in real-time.


Bunkspeed SHOT™ incorporates mental images’ innovative iray technology to provide an interactive, 3D rendering solution that brings the power of the GPU to creative professionals everywhere, enabling rapid and fluid feedback. Bunkspeed SHOT™ provides stunning, photorealistic accuracy, and empowers users to intuitively create the highest quality image output without the steep learning curves required of other rendering products.

Bunkspeed SHOT with iray also enables users to scale up rendering over multiple NVIDIA GPUs or machines. An entirely new level of performance and realism is now a reality at less than 20% of the cost for achieving the same level on multiple CPUs.

The re-imagined, all new interface of Bunkspeed SHOT further simplifies the rendering process. The workflow and user experience is more intuitive -- packed with more features, interactive lighting, superior shadows, and rendered images that require no quality settings.  Designers, engineers, marketers, and photographers, without expertise in rendering will be impressed with how fast and easy it is to create stunningly realistic images. Architects and interior designers will be equally amazed by how quickly they can render their ideas and designs.

“With the introduction of Bunkspeed SHOT, the next-generation “3D interactive photograph”, we have eliminated the last of the traditional boundaries associated with 3D rendering by delivering a software solution that allows anyone with creative desire to easily create photo-realistic images from any 3D digital data”, says Philip Lunn, Bunkspeed founder and CEO.

"With its innovative new SHOT software, Bunkspeed is the first to integrate and bring our interactive iray rendering technology to market,” said Rolf Herken, CEO and CTO of mental images. “SHOT combines unprecedented ease of use with the most accurate simulation possible. Leveraging the power of the GPU, iray provides creative professionals with the simulated digital camera they could only dream of in the past."

Bunkspeed SHOT integrated with iray rendering technology leverages NVIDIA Quadro professional graphics solutions to enable a combination of unprecedented power, elegance and accuracy. Bunkspeed SHOT is available today starting at US$995.

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